Telco Cloud: Exploring the Tools and Technologies Powering the Ecosystem

Telco Cloud represents an enormous opportunity for communications service providers to transform their business practices. By bringing together the best of telco and cloud tools and technologies, communications service providers can deploy network functions anywhere to provide the best user experience without sacrificing service reliability. In this webinar, we will highlight the technical problems and challenges and offer a variety of solutions for the audience to address performance, availability, security, and manageability and automation as they consider their options for transforming their networks in a Telco Cloud environment.

5G promises a world of unprecedented speed and differentiated quality of service that has the potential to unleash a wide array of new services and business models.
But, in order to maximize 5G monetization, service providers need to be fast to deploy, open to drive innovation, smart to efficiently orchestrate a dynamic network, and quick to capture every revenue opportunity. In this presentation we will explore how service providers will utilize NFV and SDN technologies and principles to achieve dynamic programmability, agility and control for 5G use-cases monetization and what is done in ONAP for managing the lifecycle of 5G network services.

Tech Mahindra has geared up to support CSPs in their migration to 5G. As a Global SI (Systems Integrator), we are an Innovation Orchestrator closely collaborating with our ecosystem partners of innovators and disruptors. Network of the Future will be dynamically sliced and differentially priced. Network Slicing will enable CSPs to create different logical networks, on a shared Telco Cloud infrastructure, with varying capabilities that best meet the varying requirements of different applications. Throughput, latency, security, mobility requirements can all vary from application to application. Furthermore, economic models across MBB, MIoT and uRLLC will greatly vary and in turn will put varying demands on the network.

Industry is seeking simple mechanisms to unleash the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G at the core of their business operations. This necessarily implicates the use of Edge Computing technologies, which are needed in several key industrial use cases. But even though the emergence of the Edge Computing revolution is imminent, the move toward new edge computing solutions is today limited by the following critical problems: 1) key companies of the industry will NOT engage in an entire transformation or evolution of their IT core systems until new advanced mechanisms are developed} to provide them with a tight control of OPEX; and 2) the current business models do not foresee the additional revenue required to cover the vast expense of deploying edge computing solutions at scale, and therefore there is a need for innovative tools and platforms provide transparent management of the increased heterogeneity, and seamless interoperability.
In this session, we will introduce the NearbyComputing Platform, an orchestration framework, designed to help companies overcome the above-mentioned limitations to adopt the Edge Computing paradigm. Through the unique model-driven approach and seamless interoperability of our solution, companies across diverse sectors (CSPs, Oil & Gas, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities) see their operational costs reduced by simplifying the management of their infrastructure, automating complex processes and introducing new high-value services that could not be deployed before.

The uCPE market is hot right now because it enables cloud-centric deployment of services like SD-WAN, firewall, IoT, and micro-cloud. But service providers and enterprises are concerned about performance, scalability and complexity. This webinar will talk about the trends and opportunities for uCPE, how ADVA and Intel can address the challenges, and some real-world use cases for uCPE.

As operators seek to deliver new customer services and business models, they must transform and modernize their networks. This effort will require the move to virtualized infrastructure and network services in the cloud, as well as using data and analytics to effectively secure the signaling core…all while enabling interworking between legacy and next-generation network services. In this webinar, NetNumber will discuss the importance of a software-defined signaling core, and how its TITAN ALL-G software platform can reinvent a telco's operations.

As in-home Wi-Fi performance is becoming a primary determinant in how a residential customer perceives the quality of their internet service, operators are looking to take responsibility for managing the Wi-Fi Quality of Experience for their subscribers. In this webinar, we will bust some of the common myths about the next generations of Wi-Fi—5GHz, 5G, and adding additional access points in the home—solving Wi-Fi QoE problems on their own. We will discuss the evolution of the Wi-Fi software stack and how a combination of emerging standards and putting the control plane in the cloud will knock down barriers of entry for chip and CPE manufacturers in being players in managing home Wi-Fi, and the benefits carriers will experience as a result.

Internet Service Providers are replacing hardware routers with virtual routers (vRouters) on x86 servers for Border Router, BNG and CG-NAT use cases. 6WIND recently announced ISP customers such as Excitel Broadband, Grape, JHComp and Minorisa are now deployed with 6WIND vRouters for use cases that service up to 200,000 users on Intel servers.

This Webinar contains information that helps Network Architects, Engineers and Managers at Internet Service Providers, Universities and educational institutions that serve as ISPs, and Integrators to increase performance while reducing costs by replacing hardware routers with vRouters on Intel servers. Customer success stories will be included.

As infrastructure becomes more integrated into services for companies large and small, it also becomes more complex. This is particularly true for telcos such as AT&T, which is why the company founded the Airship project to help cleanly manage infrastructure. In this webinar, Matt McEuen of AT&T and Evgeny Li of Mirantis will explain how this open source project works to streamline deployment of tools such as OpenStack and Kubernetes, demonstrating how it works in both local development and production multinode bare metal environments.

Attendees will learn:

•How the architecture of Airship simplifies complex deployment
•The differences between a bare metal and virtual environment
•How to deploy a local production environment
•How to create and trigger a job to perform everyday tasks repeatably and reliably

While NFV brings numerous benefits to Communication Service Providers (CSPs), it also introduces new tasks that CSPs previously did not have to worry about. Some of these tasks are:

* VNF Performance Validation
* VNF Onboarding
* VNF Deployment

In this webinar, you will learn why these new tasks are important and how to use open source projects to accomplish them. We will use OPNFV Yardstick NSB, OPNFV SampleVNF, OPNFV OpenStack scenario and ONAP to walk through each of the above steps. You will gain understanding of what each of these tools is and how they help accomplish the above tasks.

Enterprises are deploying SD-WAN, at an increasingly faster pace, as an important first step towards building optimized environments that are ready for multi-cloud world. As a platform, SD-WAN is a solid first step in deploying edge security applications and services with additional security functions like next-generation firewall (NGFW), intrusion prevention, SSL inspection, web filtering, DNS security, and malware analysis needed as well. In this webinar, we will discuss how VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud lays the foundation for SD-WAN and how Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and GlobalProtect security products complement and strengthen overall security to help organizations prevent successful cyberattacks. We will also discuss how Intel architecture, network and security specific hardware and software technologies help these workloads operate in a consistent, saleable and high performance way.

Financial customers moves their applications from enterprise deployments to data center lowering the OPEX. With this movement there is no move to change requirements that are low and deterministic latency of data transport and extreme compute power. With use of FPGA and DPDK technology there is possible to lower the transport latency and use compute of power of Intel® Xeon® processors efficiently comparing to traditional Linux kernel approach.
The webinar presents problems related with transport using Linux kernel and demonstrates how the FPGA and DPDK can be used to improve data transport for financial applications.

The telecoms industry is capital intensive, so every dollar and every cent spent on new infrastructure needs to be accounted for. The biggest expense for mobile operators has always been the RAN, accounting for around 60 % of CAPEX (and 65 % of OPEX). Older (2G, 3G) technologies are becoming more expensive to maintain alongside with 4G and soon 5G. The Open Compute model of the data center has the potential to help operators to move away from proprietary hardware to a virtualized network architecture. Some of TIP’s (Telecom Infrastructure Project) initiatives by Facebook) highest-profile activities are aimed specifically at the RAN, where the proprietary nature of several interfaces has stopped operators from using more than one vendor. The software-based approach for older Gs is unheard of where by virtue of the original design, it’s impossible to reconfigure legacy 2G and 3G networks to support newer communications standards such as 4G, and eventually 5G. In this webinar learn how Parallel Wireless Open RAN technology, designed on x86 across baseband processing platform, radio hardware, and radio and core software, simplifies MNOs business models to support ALL current, present, and future Gs for a better service to the end users at much lower cost. We will present recent case studies from TIP Summit from operators like Telefonica, MTN and Vodafone. www.parallelwireless.com

Most mobile operators are moving ahead with their 5G plans, some tentatively and others aggressively. Those who don’t act, face the very real prospect of being left behind in the greatest technology transformation in decades.

To Modernize your 4G/LTE networks for 5G, we will outline four strategic investments that mobile operators should consider today while delving into the myths and realities around them. These four areas are:
•Upgrading network management
•Consolidating network functions
•Boosting security at key protection points
•Virtualizing network functions

In the security portion of this webinar, we also spotlight key concerns where modern Gi/SGi firewalls and advanced machine learning powered DDoS protection are essential. By carefully investing in upgrades to support specific 5G use cases, network operators can monetize their near-term investments and at the same time modernize the existing infrastructure in preparation for the eventual migration to a full 5G architecture.

Networking has become painfully complicated. There has been little innovation in routing for decades. Overly complex networks are barely meeting today’s business requirements, with armies of sleep-deprived network engineers, duct-tape, and some luck. In this talk, we will discuss how session orientation in the routing layer allows a fundamentally different, far simpler, way to network. Session Smart Routers enable tunnel free SD-WAN on Intel uCPEs which improve scale and performance by leaps when compared to traditional routers. We will discuss how enterprises and service providers are using this to unlock unprecedented value.

Colt is rolling out its uCPE platform for delivery of virtualized services. The uCPE approach enables Colt to achieve faster product development, cost savings and operational efficiency, all while leveraging best-in-class technology from multiple suppliers. As well as the ability to rapidly bring new products and services to the market, Colt’s uCPE solution will deliver a new level of efficiency. Capital and operating expenses are dramatically reduced with the use of shared commercial off-the-shelf infrastructure and standardization enables processes and skill sets to be optimized and streamlined.

In this webinar we will review a novel network fabric architecture that leverages open source software, distributed SDN intelligence and open networking principals and has been designed for multi-site data center deployments as well as emerging distributed cloud and edge compute environments. We will discuss the technical attributes of the architecture and the rationale behind its design and then we will review deployment examples. The first will be how this architecture has been deployed at regional cloud service provider Econocom Italia for their new Naboo Cloud offering. Econocom is the Digital Transformation Designer that designs, integrates and supports innovation, accelerating the digital transformation of companies. We will review the status of the implementation, learnings to date and next steps in the deployment. Second we will review a common scenario whereby Enterprise customers like Steelcase deployed a programmable network fabric to interconnect their multiple data centers and use the fabric’s deep segmentation functionality for IoT deployments.

We are pleased to offer a new Webinar, “Securing your containers with Kata,” focusing on financial and other highly-sensitive use cases. Kata Containers offer hardware-rooted isolation between containers, providing an additional layer of security for sensitive applications. The webinar will include a discussion of the motivations behind the Kata Containers project, how it fits into the broader container ecosystem with Kubernetes and Docker interoperability, and the advantages of its small footprint and stronger security. For familiar users, we’ll also review how the project has evolved from version 1.0 to the recent 1.5 release. We will also provide demonstrations of how to get started with Kata Containers and how Kata Containers can mitigate against an existing security exploit. Join us on February 21, 2019, for an informative hour on Kata Containers.

Workloads are shifting across platforms that span from entry-level to extreme performance.
Finding the right balance of compute, acceleration, networking and storage to cost effectively run an application at any location in the network can be challenging.
More agile solutions are required that meet the challenges of next generation networks with greater elasticity across a scalable range of white box servers.

This webinar will provide you with deeper insights into Intel® Select Solutions for NFVI and uCPE and how they help:

Cybersecurity is a conversation without compromise. Our data is an extension of ourselves. Our client’s data is data in our care.
We exist in a paradigm where our business requires a robust security architecture woven into the fabric of our Networks, Storage, Big Data, Enterprise and Cloud configurations.
As the amount of information we manage multiplies exponentially, it is becoming increasingly challenging to ensure our structures are robust enough, processes nimble enough, and data protected enough to stave off cyber-security threats.
Hactivists, Activists and Nation States are well organized and funded around the globe. Their illegal hacking activity is a constant threat to our infrastructure that requires architectures and support to maximize our protection.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) accelerates Crypto Ciphers, Hash, Public Key Cryptography, Key Protection and Compression/Decompression so that your architecture has the protection, performance and latency to secure your information, and provide an agile response to threats.

The Intel® Network Builders webinar program is a recurring webcast series in which ecosystem members and Intel technology experts delve into the technologies, topics, and issues facing the networking industry. Presenters delve into the network transformation taking place through the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) across telecommunication and enterprise organizations.

Intel Network Builders also offers a comprehensive NFV and SDN training program through the Intel Network Builders University, which offers a broad collection of online content for technical professionals in the network industry. Learn more at http://networkbuilders.intel.com/university.